S&.F&g&X' .'lfr$ 5 TsJPT " 16 THE FTFrSBTJKG- DISPATCH, 4 SUNDAY.. FEBRUARY 7, 1892. thing rbich protected him from open in tuit, and that was his muscle. These young people, had seen him exer cising mornings, sfter his cold sponge bath, and they had perceived by his performance md the bnild of his body, that he was ath letic, and also versed in boxing. He felt pretty naked now, recognizing that he was thorn of all respect except respect for his fists. One night when he entered his room he found about a dozen of the young fellows there carrying on a very lively conversa tion, punctuated with horse laughter. The talking ceased instantly, and the frank affront of a dead silence followed. He said: "Good evening, gentlemen," and sat down. There was no response. He flushed to the temples, but forced himself to maintain silence. He sat there in this uncomfortable stillness some time, then got up and went out The moment he had disappeared he heard a prodigious shout of laughter break forth. He saw that their plain purpose had been to insult him. He ascended to tho flat roof, hoping to be able to cool down his epirit there and get back his tranquility. He found the young tinner up there, alone and brooding, and he entered into conversa tion with him. They were pretty fairly matched now, in unpopularity and general ill-luck and misery, andthey had "no trouble in meeting xipon this common ground with advantage and something of comfort to both. But Tracy's movements had been watched, and in a few minutes the tormentors came strag pling one after another to the roof, where they began to stroll up and down in an ap parently purposeless way. But presently they fell to dropping remarks that were evi dently aimed at Tracy, and some of them at the tinner. The ringleaderof this little mob was a ehort-haircd bully and amateur prize fighter teamed Allen, who was accustomed to lord ing it over the upper floor, and had more than once snown a disposition to make trouble with Tracy. .Now there was an occasional cat-call, and hootings and i hillings, and finally the diversion of an exchange of connected remarks was intro duced. "How many doc it take to make apair?" "Well, two generally makeB a pair, but eomctimes there ain't stuff" enough in them to make a whole pair." General langh. "What wcreyoa saying about the English & while ago?" "Oh, nothing, the English are all right, only I "'What was it you said about them?" "Oh, I only said thev swallow well." "Swallow better than other people?" "Oh, yes, the Englishswallowagood deal better than 'other people." "What is it they swallow best?" J "Oh, insult"!." Another general laugh. "Prettv hard to make 'em fight, ain't it?' "o, tain't hard to make 'em fight." "Ain't it, really?" "So, ta'n't hard. It's impossible." An ethcr laugh. "Tnis one's kind of spiritless, that's cer tsin." "Couldn't be the other vay in his case." "Whv?" "Don't you know the secret of his birth?" "So. Has he got a secret of his birth?" 'Ton bet he has." "What is it?" "His father was a war figger." Alien came strolling by where the pair were sitting, stopped and said to the tinner: "How are vou off for friends, these days?" "Well enough off" "Got a goodmany?" "Well, as many as I need." "A fr.ee d is'valuable sometimes as a protector, you know. What do you reckon would happen if I was to snatch your cap o2 and ship you in the face with it?" "Please don't trouble me. Mr. Allen. I ain't doing anything to vou." "Ion answer me! What do you reckon would happen?" "Well, 1 don't-know." Tracy spoke up with a good deal of de liberation, and said: "Don't trouble the young fellow. I can tell you what would happen." "Oh, you can, can you? Soys, Johnny Bull can tell us what would happen if I was to snatch this chump's cap off and slap him in the face with it. Now you'll see." Kc matched the C3p and struck the youth in the tace, and belore he could inquire what was going to happen, it had already happened, and he was warming the tin with the broad of his back. Instantly there was a rush, and shouts of "A ring, a ring; make a ring! l"air play all ronndl Johnny's grit; give him a chance." The ring wa3 quicklv chalked on the tin, and Tracy found lumself as eager to begin as he could have been if his antagonist had been a prince instead of a mechanic. At bottom he was a little surprised at this, be cause although his theories had been all in that direction for some time, he was not prepared to find himself actually eager to measure strength with quite so common a, man as this ruffian. In a moment all the windows in the neigh borhood were filled with people, and the roofs also. The men squared off and the fight began. But Allen stood no chance whatever against the young Englishman. 2eithcr in muscle nor "science was he his equal. He measured his length on the tin time and again; in fact, as fast as he could get up he went down aiain, and the ap plause was kept up in liberal fashion from all the neighborhood around. Tinally Allen had to be helped up. Then Tracy declined to punish him further, and the fight was at an end. Allen was carried off by Eome of his friends in a very much humbled condition, his face black and blue and bleeding, and Tracy was at once surrounded by the young fellows, who congratulated him ami told him that he had done the whole house a service, and that from this out Jfr. Allen would be a little more particular about how he handed slights and insults and maltreat xnent around among the boarders. Trac3' was a hero now, and exceedingly popular. Perhaps nobody had ever been quite popular on that upper floor before. But, if being discountenanced by thee young fellons had been bard to bear, their lavish commendations and approval and hero-worship was harder still to endure. He felt desraded, but he did not allow him self to analyze the reasons whv too closely. He was content to satisfy himself with the suggestion that he looked upon himself as Degraded by the public spectacle which he had made of himself, fighting on a tin roof for the delectation of everybody a block or two around. Bnt he wasn't entirely satisfied with that explanation of it Once he went a little too far and wrote in his diary that his case was worse than that of the Prodigal Son. He naid the Prodigal Son merely fed swine, he didn't have to chum with them. But he ttruck that out and said, "All men are equal. I will not disown my principles. These men are as good as I am." Tracy had become popular on the lower floors also. Everybody was grateful for Allen's reduction to the ranks, and for his transformation from a doer of outrages to a Cere threatener of them. The young girls, of whom there were half a dozen, showed many attentions to Tracy, particularly that boarding-house pet, Hat tip, the landlady's daughter. She said to him, very sweetly: "I think you're ever so nice." And when he said, "I'm glad you think so, Miss Hat tie," she said, still more tweetly: "Don't call me Miss Hattie call me Tass." Ahl here was promotion! He had struck the summit There were no higher heights to climb in that boarding house. His popu larity w as complete. In the presence of people, Tracy showed a tranquil outside, but his heart was being eaten out of him by distress and despair. In a little while he should be out of money, and then what should he do? He wished now that he had borrowed a little more lib erally lrom thvt stranger's store. He found it impossible to sleep. A single torturing, tcnitying thought went racking round and round in his head, wearing a groove in his brain. What should he do what was to become of him? And along with it began to intrude a something presently which, was ery liken wish that he had not ioined the treat and noble ranks of martyrdom, but J Lad Staved at home inri hn rnntent to he'l merely an earl and nothing better, with nothing more to do in this world of a use ful Bort, than an earl finds to do. But he smothered that pvt of his thought as well as he could; he made every effort to drive it away, and with fair success, but he couldn't keep it from intruding a little now and then, and when it intruded it came suddenly and nipped him like a bite, a sting, a" burn. He recognized that thought by the peculiar sharpness of its pang. The others were painful , enough, but that one cut to the quick when it came. Ulght after night he lay tossing to the music of the hideous snoring of the honest bread-winners until 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, then got up and took refuge on the roof, where he sometimes got a nap and sometimes failed' entirely. His appetite was leaving him, and the zest of lile was going along with it Finally, one dav, being near the immi nent verge of total discouragement, he said to himself, and took occasion to blush pri vately when he said it: "If my father knew what my American name is he well, my duty to my father rather requires that I furnish him my name. I have no right to make his days and nights unhappy. I can do enough unhappiness for the family all by myself. Eeally, he ought to know what my American name is." He thought over it a while, and framed a cablegram in his mind to this effect: "My American name Is Howard Tracy." That wouldn't be suggesting anything. His father could understand that as he chose, and doubtless he would under'tand it as it was meant, as the dutiful and affection ate desire on the part of a son to make his old father happy lor a moment Continuing his train of thought, Tracy said to himself, "Ah, but if he should cable me to come home! I I couldn't do that I mustn't do that I've started out on a mission, and I I musn't turn mv back 'on it in cowardice. So, no, I couldn't go home, at at least I shouldn't want to go home." After a reflective pause, "Well, maybe perhaps it would be my duty to go in the circumstances; he's.very old, and he does need me by him to stay his footsteps down the long hill that inclines westward toward the sunset of his life. "Well, I'll think about that Yes, of course, it wouldn't be right to stay here. I if I well, perhaps I could just drop him a line and put it off a little while, and Fatisfy him in that way. It would be well, it would mar every thing to have him to require me to come in stantly." Another reflective pause then: "And yet if he should do that I don't know but oh, dear me home! How good it sounds! and a body is excusable for wanting to see his home again, now and then, anyway." He went to one of the telegraph offices in the avenue, and got the first end of what Barrow called the "usual Washington courtesy," where "they treat you as a JB. 1 TOft HIS ATHLETIC TgAETKTO tramp until they find out you're a Congress man, and then they slobber all over you." There was a boy of 17 on duty there, tying his shoe. He "had his foot on a chair, and his back turned toward the wicket He glanced over his shoulder, took Tracy's measure, turned hack, and then went on tying his shoe. . Tracy finished writing his telegram and waited, still waited, and still waited, for that performance to finish, but there didn't seem to be any finish to it; so, Anally, Tracy said: "Can't you take my telegram 7" The youth looked over his shoulder and said, by his manner, not his words: "Don't you think yon could wait a min ute, if you tried ?" However, he got the shoe tied at last, and came and took the telegram, glancing over it, then looked np surprised at Tracy. There was something in his look that bor dered upon respect, almost reverence, it seemed to Tracy, although he had been so long without anything of this kind he was not sure that he knew "the signs of it The boy read the address aloud, with pleased expression in face and voice. "TheEarlof Bossmore! Cracky! Do you know him?" "Yes." "Is that sol Does he know yon?" "Well yes." "Well, I swearl "Will he answer yon?" "I think he will." "Will he, though? Where'U you have it sent?" "Oh, nowhere. I'll call here and get it When shall I call?" 0h, I don't know I'll send it to you. Where shall I send it? Give me your ad dress; I'll send it to you soon's it comes." But Tracy didn't propose to do this. He had acquired the boy's admiration and def erential respect, and he wasn't willing to throw these precious things away, a result sure to follow if he should give the address of that hoarding house. So he said again that he would 'call and get the telegram and went his way." He idled along, reflecting. He said to himself: "There is something pleasant about being respected. I have acquired the respect of Mr. Allen and some of those others, and almost the deference of some of them on pure merit, for having thrashed Allen. While their respect and their def erence if it is deference is pleasant, a deference based upon a sham, a shadow, does really seem pleasanter still. It's no real merit to be in correspondence with an earl, and yet, after all, that boy makes me feel as if there was." The cablegram was actually cone home! The thought of it gave him an immense up lift He walked with a lighter tread. His heart was full of happiness. He threw aside nil hesitances, and confessed to him self that he was glad through and through that he was going to give up this experi ment and go back to his home again. His eagerness to get his father's answer began to grow now, and it grew with marvelous celerity after it began. He waited an hour, walking about putting in his time as well as he Could, but interested in nothing that came nndcr his eve, and at last he presented himself at the ofnee again and asked if any answer had come yet The boy said: "So, no answer yet," then glanced up at the clock and added: "I don't think it's likely you'll get one to-day." "Why not?" "Well, you see; it's cetting pretty late. You can't always tell wherc'bonts a man is when he's on the other side, and you can't always find him just the minute you want him, you see, and it's getting" about 6 o'clock now, and over there it's pretty late at night" "Why, yes," said Traey. "I hadn't thought of that" "les, pretty late nowt half past iO or 11. Oh, yes, you probably won't get any answer to-nicht" So Tracy went home to supper. The odors J ST .ui!i.r y in that supper room seemed more strenuous and more horrible than ever before, nnd ho was happy in the thought that he was so soon to be freed from them again. When the "supper was over he hardly knew whether he had eaten any of it or hot, and he certainly hadn't heard any of the conversation. His heart had been dancing " all the ;time, his thoughts had been far away from these things, and in the visions of his mind the sumptuous appointments of his father's castle had risen before him without rebuke. Even the plushed flunkey, that walking symbol of sham inequality, had not been unpleasant to his dreaming'view. After the meal Barrows said: "Come with me, I'll give you a jolly evening." "Very good. Where are yon going?" "To mv club." "What club is that?" "Mechanics' Debatinsr Club." Tracy shuddered slightly. He didn't say anything about having visited that place himself. Somehow he didn't quite relish the memory of that time. ThCsentiments which had" made his former visit there so enjoyable, and filled him with such enthu siasm, bad undergone a gradual change, and they had rotted away to such a degree that he couldn't contemplate another visit there with anything strongly resembling delight In fact he was a little ashamed to go; he didn t want to go there and hnd out by the rude impact of the thoueht of those people upon his reorganized condition of mind, how sharp the change had been. He would have preferred to stay away. He ex pected that now he should hear nothing ex cept sentiments which wonld be a reproach to him in his changed mental attitude, and he rather wished he might be excused. And yet he didn't quite want to say that, he didn't want to show how he did feel, or show any disinclination to go, and so he forced himself to go along with Barrows, privately proposing to take an early oppor tunity to get away. Alter the essayist of the evening had read his paper the Chairman announced that the debate would now bo upon the subject of the previous meeting, "The American Press." It saddened the backsliding diciple to hear this announcement It brought up too many reminiscences. He wished he had happened upon some other subject But the debate began, and he sat still and listened. In the course of the discussion one of the speakers, a blacksmith named-Tompkins, arraigned all monarchs and all lords in the earth for their cold selfishness in retaining their unearned dignities. He said that no monarch and no son of a monarch, no'lord and no son of a lord ought to be able to look his fellow man in the face without shame. Shame for consenting to keep his unearned property, titles and privileges at &Cft SERVED HIJI VraXU the expense of other people. Shame for consenting to remain on any terms in dis honorable possession of these things, which represented by-gone robberies and wrongs inflicted upon the general peo ple of the nation: He said: "If there were a lord ortheeonof a lord here, I would like to reason with him, and try to show him how unfair and how selfish his position is. I would try to persuade him to relin quish it, take his place among men on equal terms, earn the bread he eats, ajd hold of slight value all deference paid him because of artificial position, all reverence not the just due of his own personal merits." Tracy seemed to be listening to utterances of his own made in talks with his radical friends, in England. It was as if some eavesdropping phonograph had treasured up his words and brought them across the Atlantic to accuse him with them in the hour of his defection and retreat Every word spoken by this stranger seemed to leave a blister on Tracy's conscience, and by the time the speech was fin ished he felt that he was all con science and one blister. This man's deep compassion for the enslaved and oppressed millions in Europe who had to bear with the contempt of that small class above them, .throned upon shining heights whose paths were shut against them, was the very thing he had often uttered to himself. The pity in this man's voice and words was the very twin of the pity that used to reside in his own heart and come from his own lips when he thought of these oppressed people. To be Continued Next Sunday. How to Wash the Face. Mrs. Anna Buppert, the authority on the arts preserative of woman's beauty, pre fers cold water to hot for bathing the facr and advocates the use -of soap once in 24 hours at night A good lather should be produced, 3nd after it is well washed off, the face should be rubbed briskly with a chamois leather. All of which most women will pronounce rank heresy. Tho lstakes of Chllrthood. Mother (reprovingly to little girl Just ready to go for a walk) Dolly, that hole was not in yonr glove this morning. Dolly (promptly) Where was it then, mamma? A Use for tho Triangle A pretty New York housekeeper has on her wall the triangle and fixture shown in this Illustration. She uses it to call her household to dinner. ftfAKL. " ' MJ YV,A 73S?sia , v. f! Willi ' . xmmzr 7 rwx - 1 A . &ff - 2Tutie of the Triangle. THE BOOK OF ISAIAH. Its Author Was a Remarkable llan of GrcafSocial Prominence. CALLED TO PREACH IN A DBEAM. How He Took Up the Political Questions 3 hat Concerned His Teople. BRIEF SIKOESIS OF HIS WHITINGS J WRITTEN FOR TOE DISPATCTM The book of Isaiah is remarkable among the books of the Bible for its interest and its value. The Bible is made np of a con siderable number of books, some in prose and some in poetry, some history, some proverbs, some letters and some sermons. The book of Isaiah belongs among the ser mons. The word prophet, we onght to keep in mind, means preacher. You can find an other meaning in the dictionary and in com mon conversation. The conj action of Venus and Jupiter is just now giving occu pation to what we are accustomed to call nowadays the exercise of prophecy. Prof. Totten, of Yale University, is a prophet But this use of the word is quite a recent definition. The idea of prediction has been prominent in this old word only since some time in the last century. In the days when Jeremy Taylor wrote in defense of the "Liberty of Prophesying," everybody un derstood that he was advocating the princi ple of free speech. Siblical Meaning jir Prophet. In the Bible, the prophet is a preacher. We may read a good many of the writings of the Old Testament "prophets" without discovering any prediction at all. The prophet is not a fore-teller, but a for-teller. He is the man who speakes tor God. And that is the business of every preacher even to-day. Thus God appointed Aaron, we read, to be the prophet ot Closes, xnat is, he was to speak for Moses, he was to carry Moses' messages. Isaiah was a preacher. The book of Isaiah is a book of sermons. I want to say something this morning about this prophet and his book, about the preacher and his sermons. I will begin with the preacher. concerning the personal me of Isaiah we know little. The first verse of his book, which is a heading added by the men who gathered these sermons together into this volume, tells us that he lived in the days of TJzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. This means the eighth century before Christ "he eighth century before Christ was that day of national trouble among, the little provinces of Palestine which saw the destruction of the Northern Kingdom by the armies of Assyria, and the fearlul dangers ot the Southern Kingdom before the same great enemy. Amos and Hosea were the creat preachers in Israel during the youth of Isaiah. Isaiah preached in Judah. A Very Considerable Personage. Isaiah was a man of education, cnlture and evident literary gifts. He belonged to a'family of high social position in the aris tocratic circles of the capital. He belonged in Jerusalem, and was much about the court, and was a personal friend of the greatest of the Jewish sovereigns of his life time, King Hezekiah. Isaiah, like St Peter, was a married man. He had two sons. Isaiah's wife was called the prophet ess, probably because she helped her hus band in his work by her sympathy, by her wise advise. Nobody knows how much of the family history ot Isaiah is hidden away under that ancient title. There is no record of the indebtedness of Isaiah, and through him ofall the religious world, to Isaiah's excellent wife. Perhaps he read to her-the notes of these great sermons. Some of the critics, who are so much interested in making out that nearly every chapter in the Old Testament was written by two or three different per sons, may some day discover for us how many good things in Isaiah's sermons are due to the suggestions of his wife. Significance of Bis Sons' Names. Isaiah's two sons had quite remarkable names. The Old Testament names have many of them a queer sound in our ears. Fathers and mothers do not often resort nowadays to the first five chapters of the First Book of Chronicles to get names for their children. But Isaiah's boys were burdened with names which even in those davs must have seemed grotesque, angular and awkward in the mouth. One was named Shear-jashub, the other was llaher-shalal-hash-baz! These names, we find, had meanings. That was one advantage which) many of the old names haa over our modern ones-nthey meant something. And the meanines of these names had an intimate connection with the truths which Isaiah was preaching. Thus Shear-jashub means "a remnant will remain." That, we will see presently, was one of the most notable of the doetnucs of Isaiah. Haher-shalal-hash-baz means "speedy prey, swift spoil." That was what Isaiah said when the politicians of Judah refused to follow his advice concerning the foreign relations of the Government He declared that the kingdom would speedily be destroyed. Shows Their Great Earnestness. Thns Isaiah's boys had names that were condensed sermons", That shows how deep the prophet and the prophetess had their hearts in the great work. They never tried to get an ay from it, even in their home, never shut their door upon it It was the whole of their life. Every interest they had, even their children, was trapped up and included in this deepest and widest in terest, their interest in the church and in the state They gave their whole life to, theicountry. It is likely that Isaiah continued preach ing 40 years. He spent 40 years in one par ish. He was probably about 70 when he died. His death, according to old traditions, was by martyrdom in the reign of the bad King Manasseh, when he is reported to have been sawn asunder with a wooden swori The call of Isaiah, the beginning of his ministry, is described in a chapter which, for some reason which no one knows now, is numbered in the book not one, bnt six. How He Came to Preach. In the sixth chapter of Isaiah we learn what it was that made this man a minister. It was not because he had tried two or three avocations and had not succeeded very well in any o'f them, that he concluded to try the clerical profession. Neither was it on ac count of the persuasion of his friends. Nor was it even in consequence of a deliberate decision made at the end of a serious en deavor to discover his duty. This man was called to God. At least that is what he said himself, who ought to know. The prophets, indeed, are all Bnanimoiis in the assertion that God called them. They were going on about their ordinary business, so they say, aud somehow there came a voice. God called them. Andthey obeyed, sometimes unwillingly,having no sort of in clination toward thatkind of work, desir ing most earnestly to keep out of it, living, some of them, in days when, as they say, a wis: and prudent man will preserve a dis creet silence. They were somehow impelled into this ministry by some sort of influence from without All the Old Frexchers Were Alike. They were stopped, and suddenly turned about, and sent -on a message from God. Thenceforth the words they speak are God's to their sermon. There is something nota ble in this constant affirmation of the old preachers that God called them. In the year that Sine TJzziah died. Isaiah had a vision. He seemed in a dream to be standing in the temple, only the temple was a hundred times greater and fairer than he had ever seen it before. In the place of the merey seat a great throne was set np, and upon this throne sat One hidden by the wide folds of his imperial vestments. ,,. Be- J side the throne, on either hand, floated in the air choiis of angelic beings, with the wings which ever since have had place in the pictures, except that each of these had six wings, covering their faces, and their feet and spread for flight, emblems of rev erence, of humility aud of prompt obedi ence. Isaiah heard the angels singing, now one choir and now the other, answering each other in melodious slroohe and anti- strophe, saying the words that are uttered omi in one ot the supreme moments or me greatest of our Christian services of adora tion, the holy communion, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory." Bow His Worlc JJcsan. And then the whole great temple seemed to reel and shake, and a great mysterious cloud ot smoke, as of the incense of the prayers of heaven, descended upon it And Isaiah, standing by the door, cried, "Woe is me, for I have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts; and I am a man of unclean lips." And one of the angelic beings taking a coal from the flaming altar touched his lips, in token of forgiveness and of cleansing. And there came a voice, crying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for ue?" And Isaiah answered, "Here am I, send mel" Thus his work began. 4 Isaiah may be thought of as a statesman, as a reformer, as a theologian. It is notable that the first thing which this wonderfully commissioned preacher did was to go info politics. Isaiah was first of all a politician. He was a religious pol itician. Isaiah made no separation in his thoucht between the Church and the State. It is not likely that ho carsd much for any institution as an institution, whether civil or ecclesiastical Isaiah's interest? was alto gether in the people. His highest desire was to have the laud full of good- men and women. Political Questions of His Time. Thus he concerned himself in whatever concerned them. And the chief concerns of his time were of a political complexion. Great measures were pending, and great perils impending. From the East the As syrian was every day getting a little closer to the West "in "the North Syria and Ephraim were allied against Judah. The people were terribly afraid of Syria and Ephraim and were determined to ask the alliance of Assyria. Isaiah was opposed to that alliance. The people, however, had their way. Bnt no sooner had they allied themselves to Assyria than they repented and wished instead to join bands with Egypt. Isaiah was all the time on the side of na tional independence. These were great questions. The supreme need of the time, as indeed of every time, was a wise man and a good man who could look, at these critical questions from the religious point of view that is to say, from the point ot view of deep and eternal principles. Isaiah was that man. Isaiah, like all the best politi cians, was a reformer. He saw no end of abuses, political and social And he was conscious of his own personal responsibil ity. He felt that he had no right to stand by and see these things go on. He Was a Bold rreacher. St Paul, who was a good judge of relig ious audacity, says that Isaiah was very bold. He was indeed. The boldest thing that a man can do is to denounce the sins of his own class. It is easy for the poor to re vue tne ricn. xne poor man wno apuses the rich wins popularity among his peers. But when a rich man speaks his mind, and opposes himself to the opinion of his asso ciates, he becomes a candidate for all sorts of martyrdom. Social tics, companionship, business association, shut men's months. How easy it is in Pittsburg to denounce the Louisiana Lottery! It is a good deal harder down in New Orleans. This man stood in the midst of the court, a rich man, a man of' social standing, a lay man, too, with no allowance for professional zeal possible in his case, and spoke his mind about the iniquities of priest and prince. This is a man worth knowing. I want to introduce some of my newspaper congregation to the prophet, Isaiah, of whom they have perhaps heard, but whom I am sure they do not know. A brave, good man, a patriot, a hero, not only the writer of one of the small number ot supremely great books of the world, but a man of action, whose splendid example ought still to be on inspiration to us. The Boole of Isaiah. Of Isaiah as a theologian, I will have more to say another time, for I mean to speak of this preacher and his sermonsmore than ODce now, and perhaps more than twice. We will let the theology go to-day. So we come to the book. There are 66 chapters in this book. They fall into tno quite distinct divisions. The first chapter of the second part is number 40. These two divisions are so different that a good many scholars tmnK tney were written by quite different men. This matter, also, we will defer until we naturally come to it Of the 39 chapters of the first part there may be made a three-fold division. In the first division. 12 chapters; in the -second, 15; in the third, 12 again. The first and third divisions are consecutive prophecies; that is, connected sermons. The middle division "is made up of isolated prophecies, single sermons. The single sermons begin with the thirteenth chapter and end with the twenty seventh. They are chiefly taken up with the affairs of other nations. Not a Narrow Teacher. The whole world was of interest to Isaiah. There was nothing narrow or parochial about him. Babylon and Egypt, Moab and Edom, Arabia and Tyre, had their places in his sermons. The God whom Isaiah be lieved in was the ruler of the round earth, nil the movements of the nations were in the ordering of his wide providence. The consecutive sermons of the first twelve chapters begin with an arraignment of the Jewish nation for their political and religious transgressions. Then follow the questions which rose out of the war with Syria and Ephriara. The consecutive prophecies of the third part deal with the invasion of Sennacherib. How far away these old names sound! And yet human nature has not changed much. The ques tions that Isaiah inet are even to-day coming up again for answer. It ought not to be altogether wasted time, if we go back with onr disinterested and unprejudiced minds and study them. George Hodges, TIN SUPPLY 0? THE WOEID. How It Is Found In the Beds of Ancient IUvers on the Malay Peninsula. Experts attached to the geological sur vey regard the prospects for American tin hopefully but not with confidence. There is plenty of -that metal tBll over the United States not only in Dakota, California and Virginia, where millions of money are being expended in preparing to mine for if, but also in Montana, Wyoming, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, along the Hudson1 and elsewhere. Wherever coarse granite exists, the industrious pros pector will find this valuable metal. But the difficulty is to get it out at a small enough cost to compete with the foreign product . .Two-thirds of the tin produced at present in the world comes from the Straits of Malacca. The backbone of the Malay Peninsula is a granite range of mountains containing the same formation as that of the Black Hills in Dakota, with irregular veins of coarse rock that holds exide of tin. Severe rains accompanied by tremendous tornadoes are characteristic of the climate in that region. They wash away the sub stance of the hills, which is carried toward the sea by the river, the tin being dropped on the w.iy because it is heavy. This has been going on for ages, and in the dry chan nels where streams formerly flowed the mining is done forthe metal, which is found in little round nuggets like shot of different sizes. Theso nuggets are separated from the gravels by the crudest conceivable methods of washing, and sent to Singapore for shipment to various parts of the world. Two of a Kind. "These trousers are very much worn this season," said the tailor, displaying his goods. "So are these I have on," replied the poet, sadly. A WILD MAN'S STORY; Steve Farenbach Was Driven to the Woods bj Failure to Get Work. LIYED LIKE A HOUNDBUILDEE. Almost a Tear in a Ends Hovel In TVJjicU a Eeast Would Freeze. KTJTS AND BOOTS WERE HIS FOOD fWTJTTIir POB THI DISPATCItt EADERSofTHE Dispatch will remember the ac count published exclusively in iis columns last Tuesday of the capture of a wild man near the town of Home stead, up the Mo nongahela river, and on the line of the P., V. & C. E. B. It is al most beyond be lief in this age of civilization and in a locality claiming to be the heart of this great industrial world, that one of God's creat ures should be driven to seek the shelter ot the bush, and the companion ship of beasts and birds. Yet such was the case of poor Steve Farenbach, the unfortunate farm laborer, who became discouraged and finally de- SBSil WHERE THE TJNFOKTTOTATE SPEJTT THE 'WTjrTEB. spondent -in his vain effort to secure em ployment of the most menial kind. He sought the solitude of the woods and de scended to the level of the animals that burrow in the earth for safety and shelter, obeying instinct rather than intelligence. One could not have descended lower in the scale of humanity than 'he, hiding in the densest thicket in the light of day, and then stalking forth in the darkness of night into some seclnded orchard to gather th'e fruit which had become overripe and had fallen to the ground, or into an already ravished vegetable garden and there fall upon his knees and with his bare, bleeding fingers, dig through the snow and ice into the frozen earth in search of a stray potato or turnip that might have been overlooked when the crops were harvested, and, if for tunate, to hug his lucky find to his bosom as earth's greatest treasure. A TalR tVIth the Wild Man. It was the writer's privilege to visit this poor, forlorn creature the next morning after his capture and receive from his own lips the story of his life. Tho officers in charge of the lockup had been'very kind to him; several good meals, a warm bath and a good nightN sleep had changed his un couth appearance of the day before into that of a respectable, civilized being. He had become quieted and was altogether rational, and, though hesitating and halting in his conversation with the reporter, spoke intel ligently about himself and his strange life. He was glad The Dispatch would pub lish his story, for then it would reach the eves of goodpeople who would come to him and give him work. He wanted to be re spectable again and go to church as he used to do m the old days when he was with his mother and sisters in his beloved father land. On the farms here in America the hired men were slaves, be said, and though the masters drove to church in their fine car riages the farm laborers, who were nearly always such poor fellows as he, were com pelled to stay at home and work. But it will interest the reader most to read his story in his own words and it is written here as it fell from his lips in the lockup at Homestead: "I was born on a farm near the town of Freiburg, in Baden, Germany, and when I was old enough attended the burger school in that time. Besides myself there were in my family three sisters and one brother. We were simply farmer folk, as were our kindred for genations back. In the spring of '84 1 emigrated to America, and, having no training for any kind of work but the farm, I naturally sought employment at that kind of work, but had hoped that in time I would be enabled to better my cqu dition and save enough money to bring my mother and sisters to this country. Not Much Money In Farmlna-. "But alas! forpoorme. The life ofa farm laborer in this free America is a dog's life at the best and last March I found myself without employment. When I asked for work they laughed at me and so I became discouraged and took to the woods and lived like the animals. I bad a little money and with it I bought a cheap suit of clothes at a store in Homestead and took them with me to my den in the woods. I had never worn them, but put them carefully an ay in the woods in the hope that I would soon secure a job of work and then I would have the clothes to put on and look respectable. "But one day in the fall several men came along. They seemed to be looking for some one, and I judged that some one to be my self, and so I ran away to the hills and did not return to my former place of abode in the ravine where I had my hut I dis covered then that my clothes had been stolen and, worst of all," a piece of jewelry that I had placed in one ot the pockets. It was a locket which contained a picture of her face. It was the last thing I had had in my possession to remind me of the dear ones so far away." Vvntchlne the Squirrels Work. The simplicity of the man was illustrated 'when he recited how he had busicdhimself .watching the squirrels laying in their win- ter store of nuts in the hollows of the great fallen trees and beneath the hnge boulders tbai strewed the ravine. He never molested them and they did not fear him -id when the sound of the hunters' guns echoed through the w oods they would run to his den for safety. He knew the haunts of all the squirrels in the neighborhood of his hut and where was hidden their winter store of nuts, but he, as hungry as he had been at times, never touched them. He, too, like the squirrels, had laid in some nuts hazel nuts but he needed some thing besides, so he had dug some roots, which he was familiar with in the old coun try, and with these he had kept off sickness and disease. I asked if, while in the woods, the thought of theft or suicide as a means of ending his troubles had ever entered his mind. He said: "My mother taught me better than that" The man had been in the woods since last April. His hands arid feet are much frost bitten. Once last fall he was mistaken for Fitzsimmons. The illustration is from an instantaneous photograph. The man was taken to his rude hpme in th'e woods and photographed as seen. H. 'D. A DOG FAMOUS IH E3 GLAND. Thronsh His Instrumentality Some 83,000 ' Were Collected for Charity. Dlnstratcd News of the World. A faithful and clever animal, formerly well known to many passengers on the Lon don and Brighton Railway, has lately died at Ncwhaven. This dog, a Scotch collie, was trained by Mr. John Climpson, guard of the evening tidal train, to carry an invi tation for money to be given by the passen gers and others, in aid of the "Associated Society of Bailwoy Servants," of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, for the "Orphan Fund." The late Kev. Dr. Forman Macleod, by the assistance of Mr. W. Riddell, of Hailes, Haddington, procured a suitable dog for the service; indeed, the animal was a gift from Mr. Biddell. "Help" was his name, and he wore a handsome silver collar, to which was appended a silver medal bearing the following inscription: "I am Help, the railway dog of England, and traveling agent tor the orphans of railway men who are killed on duty. My office is BS, Cole brook Bow, London, where subscriptions will be thankfully received and duly ac knowledged." Itis estimated that "Help" wai instrumental in obtaining upward of 1,000 for the Orphan Fund. At the Bristol Dog Show, in 1884, "Help" was presented with a silver medal, and Mr. F. W. Hughes, of the Gresham Club, presented him with a silver collar and tablet The Bosh to South Africa. Pan Mall Bndjjet.J For the last ten days or so the Govern ment offices of the Cape of Good Hope, in Victoria street, have been besieged by ap plicants for information about South Af rica. The applications are made chiefly in writing, and from 50 to 60 letters are re ceived every day. The large proportion of apparently intending emigrants are work ing people, who want no pecuniary assist ance, but only require advice as to the best place to settle and the methods of proceed ing. Some announce a "desire to go north into Mashonaland, others desire to settle in Bechuanaland and the South. Among the numbers who are daily applying there are a few clerks who are generally advised not to go out but there are as yet no agricul tural laborers. A Neat Sinner Gonf. The accompanying illustration shows the design for a dinner gong gotten np by a T In a Fagoda ef Bamboo. Philadelphia lady noted for her taste. The bamboo pagjoda makes it an ornament. A Common-Sense ' Remedy. . In the matter of curatives what you want is something that will do its work while you continue to do yours a remedy that will give you no inconvenience nor, interfere with your business. Such a remedy is Allcock's Porous Plasters. These plasters are not an experiment ; they have been in use "for over thirty years, and their value has been attested by the highest medical authorities, as well as by voluntary testimonials from those who have used them. . Allcock's Porous Plasters are purely vegetable and absolutely harmless. They require no change of diet and are not affected by wet or cold. Their action does not interfere with labor or business ; you can toil and yet be cured while hard at work. They are so pure that the youngest, the oldestr the most delicate person of either sex can use them with great benefit. Beware of Imitations, and do not be deceived by misrepresentation. Ask for Allcock's, and let no solicitation or explanation induce yon to rrmt: .-i substitute. "" "---- ' "S1 r , J. . .. ' KEALM OF SflMCET Some Ifewv Inventions and Novel Applications of Old Ones. TALEIKG feiTO A TELEPHONE. A Suggestion That Electricity Ee Harnessed . to Carry Mails. THE TONGUE AS A HEALTH I3DICAT0B rJtrrr FOE TIEE DISPATCH.! It is found that not one person in ten among those who are dailv using the tele phone, know how to use it properly. The manager of a large exchange says: "Why, just talk in an ordinary conversational tone, as if you were soeaking to somebody three or four feet from you. I can talk from Washington City to Portland 3Ie.lt that way and make myself plainly heard. The best position Is to stand with the month about three inches from the transmitter. Mostpeoplo stand further tack, but It is better to stand even nearer. It is almost impossible to get too near the instrument, provided a distinct conversational tone li maintained. If you watch the girls at tho switchboard, yon will notice that they talk distinctly, and that most of them put their noses ajainst tho instrument when they speak. .They don't have trouble, and nobody else would if he would adopt similar methods." How to Head th Torino. The perfectly healthy tongue fs clean, moist, lies loosely in the mouth and has no prominent papillae. The tongne may bo furred from local causes or sympathy with the stomach, intestines or liver. The dry tonjrno ocenrs most frequently in fever, and Indicates a ncrvnns prostration or depres sion. A white tonprne is diagnostic simply of the lovensh condition, with perhaps a sour stomach. When it Is moist and yellow ish brown it shows disordered digestion: when dry nnd brown, a low state of the sys tem, pcsibly typhoid. When it is dry and. red and smootc, inflammation, gastric or in testinal, is at hand. When the papillae on the end of tho tongue are raised and very red, tho strawberry tonsnols developed.and that means scarlet rcver. A sharp pointed red tonzno snjrgests brain irritation or in flammation, and a yellow coating indicates liver deranffotnent. It will thus be seen that it Is worth while to acquire the reading ot a health barometer at once so useful and so handy. The Electric Torch lamp. A clever adaptation of the electric light has been made for the purposes of theatrical display. It is named the "torch'Mamp, and consists of a larse incandescent b nib with four lenses fused on to it, all the surface around them beinjr frosted. The effect of this combination of a trne spheroidal form or globe with frosting and lenses is topro- ect the li;ht in the form of four condensed icams. An American firm has sent a large number of these lamps to Europe within tho last month, to ho used for the nrodnctlon of the opera "Kobe.rt le DIable." The lamps were mounted on torchc. which contained small storazo batteries. Little vanes at the base" of the lamps revolved with the least motion of the air. and gave a rotary motion to tho lamps, the beams of which would then flash In every direction. Thi3 lamp is alo nsed with excellent effect as a loco motive headlight. Saf ety Gnard lor Citrs. A large percentage of aecidents on street railways are dne to passengers attempting to get on and off the moving cars. A device has been designed for tho purpnse of throw ing the person away from the car shonld ho lose his hold, and to push him to one side out or the path of the following car shonhl he miss the step and fall. The device con sists ofa plate or board extending from the top part of 'he fender to a point near tho track rail. This plate projects laterally from the car fender, to which it Is made ad justable by means of vertical slots, corre sponding slots being made in the fender. Should a passenger miss his grip of the handle of the car the guard throws him clear of the step, and In case he slipped or stumbled in leaving the car the dependent part of the guard wonld push him out of harm's way. Tha length of tho Sun's Day. An Important piece of work has been dons in tho observatory in Potsdam, Germany. Prof. Doner has obtained a hitherto un known exactitude in tho measurements of the movements of tho sun. and finds that that body moves round its axis at the rate of a mile and 212 feet in a second of time. The snn's day lasts, therefore, at its equator 23 days and 12 hours of our reckoning. Cut what is remarkible in Dnner"s measure ments is tint they resnlt in a different length of revolution In different parts of tho body of the sun, reznlarlr increasing in length from the equator to the pole', so that those parts of the son's surface lying near the two poles have a day as long as 6 of our davs. This is possible only with a movabls and gaseous surface llko that of the sun. An Electrical Mall Carrier. Among the plans wnicn have been sub mitted to the Kew Tork postmaster is one lor the electrical transmission of the malls. A traveler, say 6 feet long and 11 by 18 inches In breadth and height, to the back of which is attached an electric motor about "i inches square, is actuated by an electric wire which runs at the bottom of an iron or steel cnbe, in which the whole arrangement is inclosed. In point of fact, it Is a minia ture trolley system, and the wire which sup plies the power Is fed from one end of the route. It is claimed that a speed or from "0 to 100 uiile3 an honr, or even more, can be obtained. Tins system wonld give all the advantages of tho pneumatic system, but with mnch less expense for the plant and maintenance. Antlpyrln and the Grip. The 111 advised use of antipyrln in cases of grip has been promptly taaen In hand In Germany, where the prominent physicians have asited the Government to prohibit tha sale or antipyrln except under such restric tions as will prevent its use withont medical supervision, as they find it a dangerous remedy when employed without proper cantion. Delicate Chronographs. At a recent meeting of the French Physi cal Society, Bevcral forms of chronographs were described, capable of measuring down to the ten-thousandth part of a second. Theso devices have been applied with good results to the measurement of the initial velocities of projectiles, and also to the time occupied by bodies falling through short distances. Growing Cork In California. It would appear that the soil and climate of California are better adapted to tha growth of the cork oak even than those of pain and Portugal. It is now suggested that the State take early action In the mat ter of fostering tho planting and cultivation of the cork tree. Many a tall cork oak is now to be found in the state. - i, ! ,i, S-l.' WS"""1 &J s &- -&. StJta V3sLj M, . ?& if - -S 1 .t ' .f i- r .... ,-, J .m&mxm jm? T T.u'.aM A -nilfe Bfc'iSiiaE:i' &SLi m